Samsung is apparently trying to get an Android device on the market for every screen size ever theorized and they announced (but long since leaked) Galaxy player 5.8 fits into that plan very well.

The name comes from the 5.8-inch screen that the device features, which has a rather low resolution of 960 x 540. Android 4.0 is onboard, and you have Bluetooth 4, a VGA front camera, 16 or 32GB of internal memory, and a micro SDHC expansion slot. A dual core 1GHz chip and 1GB of RAM was rumored, but the official information doesn’t mention that part of the hardware.

This player is hard to place in today’s market. The argument for existing Galaxy Players has been that they’re portable than tablets, and cheaper than phones.
5.8 inches is closer than before to the 7-inch tablet market, which consists of budget devices like the NEXUS 7 ,kindle HD ,barns buster HD ,Galaxy Nexus and the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0.

With the Galaxy Nexus you get a much higher resolution screen and much better performance, but it seriously lacks in the storage department. The Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 doesn’t have as impressive a screen or chipset, but has more bells and whistles like a micro SDHC slot and camera.

And of course the nexus 7 that stormed the tablet world taking no prisoners with it's high specs and low price and is still considered by a number of online Reviewers to be the king of the hill for modestly priced tablets as it contains a full arsenal of features and does not imprison it's buyers into a padded cell like environment like some other OS do.

Even so, a 5.8-inch device is still more pocket-able than a 7-inch tablet, so the new Galaxy Player isn’t necessarily doomed right away. I guess it will all depend on the price, which isn’t yet known.

I just found out that GPS comes as standard and it will have Ice cream sandwich with Samsung's own TouchWiz UI on top Installed .so you will have to wait yet again for samsung to update it to jelly bean in the distant future as and when they see fit.

It looks like the nexus 7 will still be the only NEW device released this year that is running jelly bean come Christmas time hopefully samsung will play catch eventually for all it's customers.

I have still not found any dimensions for it and im interested on it's weight.

Yes thats what i said , it better be lower than the older galaxy 5 as it's currently selling on amaon usa for $204 and that was released in 2011.
Lowest price in the UK is for the galaxy 5inch 8gb version at £170 £30 more and you can have a nexus 7 16gb or a 32gb kindle fire HD.

If i was going to loose screen space and some extras that a 7' tablet has then i would expect it to be cheaper than those prices.

Yes thats what i said , it better be lower than the older galaxy 5 as it's currently selling on amaon usa for $204 and that was released in 2011.
Lowest price in the UK is for the galaxy 5inch 8gb version at £170 £30 more and you can have a nexus 7 16gb or a 32gb kindle fire HD.

If i was going to loose screen space and some extras that a 7' tablet has then i would expect it to be cheaper than those prices.

I've come very, very close to buying the Galaxy Player 5. But I couldn't bring myself to spend $199 (Best Buy regularly has these on sale) for a "stale" device. Especially when I bought a GTab 2 7.0 Student Edition for a few bucks more.

If Samsung is true to form, this thing will be priced starting at $200.

And of course the nexus 7 that stormed the tablet world taking no prisoners with it's high specs and low price and is still considered by a number of online Reviewers to be the king of the hill for modestly priced tablets as it contains a full arsenal of features and does not imprison it's buyers into a padded cell like environment like some other OS do.

Am I right in thinking that the Nexus doesn't have an SD slot?
If that is the case then, Nexus does imprison.

As afv011 said,that's a thing of the past and best of all you don't need any rooting to access USB memory cards,sticks or portable hard drives.

Not only that but the NEXUS MEDIA IMPORTER also allows other devices like the Galaxy Nexus , Motorola Xoom to expand there storage easily .It also Works with conflict with the Samsung S3 , Archos G9 and supports FAT16,FAT32,NTFS memory storage devices.

The developer has accomplished something no other has by bringing a very cheap and easy to use App to devices that could only have expanded there storage before by rooting.So he deserves some credit and has sold well over 50,000++ of his Apps so far.

I for one have 73gb of storage (using my Sandisk 64GB Ultra)when i leave the house and could easy take more if i took my 16gb Sandisk slice USB stick or 16GB SDHC card out of my camera too and nearly every one these days has a USB memory stick or card lying around the house